I’m presenting a paper on saturday at the Australian and New Zealand Theological Association Conference, my paper is titled, “Transform: yourself and your library service with some handy tips and tricks using my toolbox”. I aim to post the paper to this site, but maybe not for a month or so.
The topics I will be discussing includes:
- Information Organisation
- Colour coding
- Emails
- Schedules
- Saying No (when appropriate)
- Listen to your clients
- 80/20 rule
- Networking in your organisation
- Policy and procedures…
- Technology to make your life easier – intranet, blogs and wikis
- Improve yourself
- Mentoring students and staff
Anyway, I have a style that likes to engage the audience and keep them interested in what we will be discussing. As well as poking a bit of fun at myself. I have taken a few snapshots to show them in the introduction of my paper to get them interested.
Yes, that’s my illustrious co-worker Katy and myself, trying to demonstrate that my tips and tricks offered at the conference will transform yourself and your library from feeling very busy and from wearing alot of hats at one time to feeling refined and in control.Enough of the gas bagging, back to the paper…
Love the pictures and love how Katy is such a willing participant!!
Thanks Gem,
Katy was an awesome participant, I think the photos are much better with two of us, than just one.
So many people see them and crack up. When I showed Katy and my boss, I had to wait a few minutes before they stopped laughing, which could happen on saturday during my presentation.
Minzah, our student took the photos and gee, we had fun taking them. She had to stop her hands from shaking, so she could take the photos, as she was laughing so much. We had to close the curtains in the meeting room because staff were looking in the window and wondering why we were wearing the party hats. It also shows other staff that librarians can be really fun !!
Jill
i actually think that katy enjoyed the ‘too many hats’ scenario!!!